Overview
- Early voting opened May 29, and 7.00% of eligible voters cast ballots by 11 a.m., marking the highest day-one turnout in a presidential poll.
- Realmeter’s last survey before the blackout shows Lee Jae-myung with 49.2% support, compared with 36.8% for People Power Party’s Kim Moon-soo and 10.3% for New Reform Party’s Lee Jun-seok.
- South Korea’s Supreme Court remanded Lee Jae-myung’s election law case to the appeals court but delayed the retrial until after June 3, ensuring his continued eligibility.
- Kim Moon-soo cast his early vote in Incheon’s Gyeyang District and plans a final campaign blitz in greater Seoul to court moderate and undecided voters.
- Lee Jun-seok recorded his early ballot separately and has rejected merger talks with the People Power Party, keeping the three-way contest intact through Election Day.